Paragraph 18 F1

for subsection (1), there were substituted—

“(1)

A person elected to the office of Mayor may not exercise police and crime commissioner functions unless that person has made a declaration in a form specified in an order made by the Secretary of State to the appropriate officer.”;

subsection (2) were omitted;

in subsection (5), for the first reference to “office” there were substituted “the duty of exercising police and crime commissioner functions as Mayor”;

subsections (6) and (7) were omitted;

at the end there were inserted—

“(8)

In this section “appropriate officer” means the person designated as the head of paid service by the Strategic Authority under section 4(1)(a) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989.”